help with install of debian and speakup!?

Tyler Littlefield compgeek13 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 14 20:30:55 EST 2006


Hello,
I have tom helping me via skype, he is doing the exact same thing as you are 
talking about.
Thx,
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Farhan" <i.am.farhan at gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 5:44 PM
Subject: Re[2]: help with install of debian and speakup!?


> The linux gui still isn't available yet.
> The way I installed Debian, i burned  a debian cd and i had to use the
> smartbootmgr.dsk file found on the slackware ftp site. I used the gui
> version of rorite to write this file to a floppy. This writing to a
> floppy was done on a windows xp computer, the computer i wanted to
> install Debian on was a pentium 1 old crap machine i had here. The
> issue i was having with my bios is any cd's wouldn't boot but floppies
> would, if you figure out what i'm talking about, maybe this might work
> for you, it worked for me, when you get the disk written you go down
> five times with your cursor down key and you should land on the boot
> from cd option. after booting the floppy
>
> on1/14/2006BlindTech of BlindTechs.Net said
> for one its twelve years in computer technology in general. not
> linux. because the linux (and/or gnu) was not avalable to the blind
> just yet as we know it. so stop misspeaking something you
> miscommunicate.
> On Jan 14, 2006, at 3:17 PM, Tyler Littlefield wrote:
>
>> and u just straight wangsta homie!
>> I have tried google, like I said before, and this is the last time
>> I tell
>> you this, because every question I ask you yell google, I use a
>> list as a
>> last resort.
>> And, if like you said, your one of the big bad techs, and you have
>> had 12
>> years linux exp... shouldn't you "know what your doing?"
>> Also, I haven't found much else. I think my sighted help is getting
>> tired of
>> helping with linux, so I am trying to find a bit of information
>> before I
>> have to get my sighted person to go back to the comp again. I reset
>> the
>> jumper, and trashed the errors. things are good now, all but the
>> system disk
>> error. I checked the bios, and device 1 is infact the cd drive...
>> So, I am
>> stumped...
>> Thanks,Any help is really appriciated.
>> MSN: compgeek134
>> skype:
>> st8amnd127
>> THX,
>> Tyler
>>
>>
>>
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